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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
artag:
--- Quote from: SingedFingers on February 02, 2017, 08:04:18 am ---Late addition here. Former sufferer and addict. Peak gear was 54 items. I spent the last two years cleaning my house and mind.
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I thought for a moment you were suggesting it was possible to recover, but I see you've just replaced it with something worse.
xrunner:
--- Quote from: bitseeker on February 02, 2017, 07:20:00 pm ---Triax cables. Oy! They immediately put a CAP (Costly Accessory Phobia) on my GAS.
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So many acronyms to learn! :palm:
TEA (Test Equipment Addict)
TN (Time Nut)
GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)
CAP (Costly Accessory Phobia)
and these -
SCOPE (Serious & Chronic Obsession with Personal Electronics)
DMM (Duplicate Meter Mania)
Keep this up and we could be the poster children for a whole new sub-specialty for the psychiatrists! :phew:
SingedFingers:
A genuinely true anecdote...
When my wife was out one weekend I slept with my Marconi 2019A RF generator. Neither of them will forgive me.
Incidentally this was because the dining table, kitchen sides were covered wth crap, the kids had wrecked the living room sofas, it was 2AM and I'd spent 5 hours trying to get a Telequipment D83 to trigger and the sig gen was already in the bed because there was nowhere else to stick it so I thought what the hell.
A lesson was learned as indicated by the scar on my arse crack: Remove the rack handles before sleeping with your test gear.
tautech:
--- Quote from: SingedFingers on February 02, 2017, 09:49:50 pm ---
A genuinely true anecdote...
When my wife was out one weekend I slept with my Marconi 2019A RF generator. Neither of them will forgive me.
Incidentally this was because the dining table, kitchen sides were covered wth crap, the kids had wrecked the living room sofas, it was 2AM and I'd spent 5 hours trying to get a Telequipment D83 to trigger and the sig gen was already in the bed because there was nowhere else to stick it so I thought what the hell.
A lesson was learned as indicated by the scar on my arse crack: Remove the rack handles before sleeping with your test gear.
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:-DD
D83, ahhhh my first scope, gorgeous large and crisp CRT and the first to break my TEA addiction by selling it. :phew:
Have you still got it SF ?
VK5RC:
Could not resist the price on NOS U1252b, despite having 2 U1253bs, my rationalisation - a parts unit.
Re tube gear - lots of fun but needs a lot of room.
Space (or lack of it) is attempting to cure me of TEA - perhaps my eldest daughter could move out with her boyfriend and then her room.........
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